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TIL that the ancient civilization which built the Gobekli Tepe in 9000BC, had a tradition of building monumental statues of men holding their penis

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oBZyA TIL Queens,NY has more languages spoken than anywhere else in the world
0d4Oj TIL of the existence of the English speech contraction “there’re”.
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6EE77 TIL about the Circassian Genocide, where about 1,500,000 Circassians were killed and hundreds of thousands were displaced by the Russian Empire in an attempt to make room for Russian colonization in Circassia.